Gideon: Guess what?!
Munshi-ians: It's a brand new day!!
I'm back from OBS- To serve. To strive. And not to yield.
Honestly speaking, when Mrs Tng told me that I could go for OBS, I felt very privileged and excited. However when the days are nearing, I started to feel a little different. I still felt excited but a little afraid. Just a day before OBS, I felt worried and excited. Worried over academic stuffs like tests and homework, excited voer what I will be doing in OBS for the next 5 days and the friends that I will meet who were once strangers to me.
OBS had been a brand new experience for me. I've learnt a lot of new things and made lots of new friends. The girls were really helpful especially Azelin and Rabbit. They helped me a lot. The guys were nice and helpful. Okay, OBS is like going back to basics where one has to live with whatever they have. Well, these 5 days have been challenging, tough, fun, tiring and fufilling.
It was a pity that Juansa fell sick and she couldn't take us for the next 4 days. Hope she's doing fine. Gideon took over. He was very caring and nice. Oh yes, he has very cool hair man. Special :-)
All right.
Day 01 was kinda boring. We just did belaying and nothing else. Slept indoors and it was really cold at night.
Day 02, Munshi trekked to Campsite 2. There were toilets! We set up our own tents with twines, nylon strings, groundsheets and blue tarps. It was really a brand new experience. Normally, when we camp, we have those kind of camps that are already half done for us. But for this camp, we did everything by ourselves. We cooked our own dinner too. The rice was fantastic. Not burnt la. Gideon helped with the rice la. Hehh :D Anw, thanks Kah Lok for your slippers. If not my shoes will get very wet :D After dinner, had a chat with Tessa, my new friend, by the beach. Next up was cleaning. Learnt something cool for cleaning la. Gideon just took some sand and rubbed onto the bottom of the pot and the soot just went off. Cool.
Day 03 was exciting and to me, it was challenging. I guess not only I think it's challenging la, cos' we did High Elements. I only manage to do one due to the time constrain. But nevertheless, I enjoyed myself though it was tough. I don't know what its called but then when I was climbing halfway using the help of the hook thing that Gideon lent us, my belayer and I myself got a shock. I fell halfway but lucky got harness and the string thing. If not I'll just die. Thank you to all Munshi-ians who helped me and encouraged me. It was really tough and when I came down, I felt as though my leg doesn't have any strength. Thank you Janice and Joyce for being my belayer and assitant belayer :-)
Before I forget, we spent an hour in the morning, building our own raft and let me tell you, our raft is super steady! And we used our raft to kayak back to Campsite 1. It was really fun. And I had my period. And guess what?1 The next day is Sea Expedition. I was very worried. Kristle's also came so both of us went down to the Medical Centre and seek for advice from the nurse there. We just went on with the Expedition.
Day 04 was the start of our Sea Expedition-there were a total of 4 groups. I paired up with Joyce. I was quite surprised that we were the first few as I thought we would be lagging behind as my arms are not very strong. But ya, I don't know how we did it, but we managed it. The sea expedition had went on to the last day as we camped at somewhere. For dinner, we had maggie mee, curry chicken and mushroom. As usual, we cooked our own dinner. Thank you Mun Han for lending me your fork. (I forgot to bring my own utensils).We had a time of sharing. As usual, there were some people who wanted to hear ghost stories but Gideon insisted that there wasn't one. And he just made up one. It was not scary cos' I knew that he was going to raise his voice out of a sudden. Heheee :DD We had our own group sharing, but not all Munshi-ians were involved though. Only Hendy, Tessa, Azelin, Rabbit, Joyce, Kristle and Chen Chao. Anh, Hendy and Kah Lok, you guys did a great job for the sea expedition. Our navigator and sweeper =))
On the
last day, we kayaked back to Camp 1. There was a storm. It was my first time kayaking with a storm. And it was very difficult to see. The raindrops were painful. But still, we managed to make it back to Camp 1. Those who finished helped the rest who just came back and we brought the kayaks up and all. We did that quite fast and all of us were under shelter.We washed up, cleaned all the things that we brought there. After all that we had a shower and it was lunch. Had a wonderful time tgt as a team. MUNSHI ROCKS! We had little time for shopping but I manage to get a t-shirt :DD
It was really a new experience and I had a fun time with MUNSHI! We rock man. We are the only group who said: Girls eat. Boys eat. Munshi, let's eat! Anw, I learnt a lot of useful things and I feel glad that I went for OBS. Once in a lifetime experience. I would love to go for another one. MUNSHI, WE ARE THE BEST! Whee~
Still a young sailor.
Took 82 back to Heartland Mall. Celebrated Mother's Day @ some food court near Heartland, the one famous for steamboat. Ah ma, and Wai gong and all my ah yi's came. We had dinner tgt and caught up with each other, and all of us went home. Mom bought I Not Stupid 2 VCD. I can get to watch it, finally! :DD
